Reader Mike sent in these pictures of something he found while out walking his ferret. Yes, we have readers with ferrets. Although the concept of a reader with a ferret confuses us, luckily we don't have to use our brains for this update because Mike was kind enough to send in some words to accompany the pictures.

Standard disclaimer: As most of you have probably noticed, this was our April Fool's piece for this year. If you liked our UK:Resistance theme used for the fool then you'll be glad to hear it's been added to the theme selector available from your account control panel. Of course in the end the joke was on us, because UK:R changed their website design from traditional red and black to their new colourful layout a couple of months ago. Oh well!

Click the owly pic above to see the article in its intended guise.

"Dear The Icon Bar, here are some pictures I took while out walking my ferret last weekend."

"I believe that you will find this very interesting, not for the fact that I own a ferret, but for what the pictures contain."

"As you can see I have followed the customary rules for taking multiple photos of the target object from a number of different distances, both to prove the authenticity of the find and to help build to a suspenseful conclusion."

"The object I found, a glorious one-slice Acorn Risc PC, was far from its natural habitat, and clearly the worse for wear."

"Perhaps it had been out drinking with friends the night before, only to get ambushed by faster, more power-hungry Wintel machines."

"If ever there was a case against knife crime in the UK, this would be it. - Mike"

Unfortunately Mike saw fit to take more photographs than write sentences, so we'll have to continue the rest of this on our own.

But that's OK - we've recovered from the news that Mike owns a ferret.

That's because we've now come to realise that this isn't any old down-and-out Risc PC.

This is real, as something similar happened to me. This is why I now own two RiscPC 700s. Even though it happens on April Fools' Day, don't be so quick to discount it - and with the RiscPC's sliding front panels as a handy door, it makes an excellent hutch for my pet weasel.